Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 2 | The use of English was thus significantly more restricted in the first generation than in the second generation , who had generally attended British schools and often had a native-like command of British English . |
| 3 | The former employed more classically Chinese designs and often limited their palette to blues and cream ( Suiyuan rugs are noted for using only different shades of blue to articulate an entire design ) . |
| 4 | He has built an empire through a series of gambles that often succeeded because rivals at first nearly died laughing — buying the Sydney Daily Mirror , starting the Australian , moving his British papers out of Fleet Street , launching the Fox television network . |
| 5 | The earliest textile mills were similar to the traditional water-powered flour mills because they consisted of load-bearing masonry external walls and wooden floors held up by timber posts or cast-iron columns and often occupied equally remote rural locations in order to exploit fully the power provided by the rushing streams of narrow Pennine valleys . |
| 6 | It was not a question requiring an answer — Weasel was a good friend from art school days and often dropped in unannounced . |
| 7 | It was used for casting small , quite intricate sculpture pieces and often finished to imitate bronze . |
| 8 | He even learned to write himself , an art normally left to professional scribes and often despised by members of the militaristic nobility . |
| 9 | It was a small dark place with a dank smell , the coolest of the three rooms and often used for stacking the carcasses of rabbits , chickens and turkeys . |
| 10 | Usually ground into a powder before use Pepper Sauces p101/ Hot condiments made from a variety of chilli peppers and often matured for several years . |
| 11 | If this is always used in all residential transactions as a standard document , then misunderstandings that often characterised transactions in the past should no longer crop up . |
| 12 | Discussion of practical ways in which teachers may adapt their methodology when teaching bilingual students is done through exercises and often based on the analysis of video or audio tapes . |
| 13 | It is also an elected body , elected in local elections and often run in council on party political lines , as is this council . |
| 14 | The women not only carried all the possessions they did n't want to risk losing in large baskets on their heads but also had to control their children and often had to sling them over their backs as they were too weak to walk themselves . |
| 15 | The parents described stool withholding behaviours in 97% of the children but often misinterpreted this behaviour as extreme efforts to pass stool . |
| 16 | In 1968 suits were with flares and turn ups & often worn with a v-neck pullover & no shirt , light weight Italian slip-ons . |
| 17 | Like the makhilas or elaborately worked sticks made of medlar , with a sharp goad concealed in the handle ; these look decorative enough but they were weapons before they became art forms and Basque men always carried them when they went to markets or cattle fairs and often fought with them . |
| 18 | But women clearly found ways of turning a restrictive garment into an alluring fashion : the surviving representations of the stola show it as a revealing slip , cut low between the breasts and often suspended from the slimmest of decorative straps . |
| 19 | After asking primary-school children questions about the Turtle cartoons , designed for children , and The Bill , designed for adults but often watched by youngsters , Dr Sheppard discovered that : |